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Publication Date: February 1, 2007A rogues' gallery of Mexican bandits, bombshells, lotharios, and thieves saturates American popular culture. Remember Speedy Gonzalez? "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Vélez? The Frito Bandito? Familiar and reassuring--at least to Anglos--these Mexican stereotypes are not a people but a text, a carefully woven, articulated, and consumer-ready commodity. In this original, provocative, and highly entertaining book, William Anthony Nericcio deconstructs Tex[t]-Mexicans in films, television, advertising, comic books, toys, literature, and even critical theory, rev...
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Release Date: July 31, 2012Ten years ago, Nicole Hunter left her troubled home behind her, unable to cope with the demands of a life with her disabled sister, Jenny. Though her search for happiness—both in career and in love—has fallen short of her dreams, Nicole pretends that all is well. Then a shattering event turns her world upside down, and suddenly, she is back in her hometown, caring for her pregnant sister and trying to heal her embattled relationship with her mother. Reunited with her family and forced to confront the guilt that haunts her, Nicole finally has the chance ...
|  | Aquarius Rising: Predawn of the New Age, Book 3: The Harmonic Convergence
Release Date: May 31, 2005At the bidding of Frank, the mystic among them, he, Mary, Paul, Capo, Helen, and Barbara reunite again to celebrate the Harmonic Convergence in August, 1987. Although the explicit focus of this reunion is the Zapotec and Mayan prophetic tradition, as much or more about our human condition is revealed through the interaction of these six friends, who, by now, have matured from hippies into yuppies. ...
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|  | In the Company of Darkness
Release Date: October 9, 2006Having tracked a great evil across a barbaric land, a vast army lays siege to a once grand city, trapping an ancient creature within and dealing a heavy blow to the men sworn to defend its walls. Intent on making this city their final stand, the army slaughters even the beasts of the fields, leaving nothing alive that it may have touched. Overwhelmed, the city is forced to lay its hopes in the hands of a band of arrogant mercenaries. Unwilling to tolerate their abuses, however, people begin to rise up against them. The mercenaries, surrounded by an enemy whose at...
|  | Mo' Better Blues
Publication Date: August 15, 1990Millions have seen Spike Lee's films - She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, and the most provocative film of 1989, Do the Right Thing - and read the companion books - Spike Lee's Gotta Have It, Uplift the Race, and Do the Right Thing. Spike launched his career with a romantic comedy, and now returns to romance, set against the backdrop of the music world, with Mo' Better Blues. Academy Award-winning Denzel Washington plays a musician torn between two beautiful women and his ambition to be a star. In this unique document Spike speaks of the people and the events ...
|  | Cell Wars - The Battle For Brian
Publication Date: October 1, 2011Remember The Beano’s Numskulls? The science fiction films Fantastic Voyage and Inner Space? No? Oh well, you won’t forget Cell Wars in a hurry. And it might save your life…Brian Davis of The Poplars, Watford, has a problem. He’s been eating junk food and drinking home brew. Like everyone else on the planet, he has a team of minuscule protectors inside him, most of them devoted to keeping him well. Except that in Brian’s case, they don’t know what to do when they find a nest of cancer cells. There’s only one sma...
|  | Historical Evidence for Unicorns
Publication Date: January 1995This illustrated book provides adequate evidence to prove that unicorns existed as late as the eighteenth century.Historians as well as unicorn figurine collectors need to have this handy reference readily at hand. ...
|  | El tamano del dolor/ The size of pain (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Der neue Rat des Herrn Smil von Pardubic: Eine Tierfabel aus dem 14. Jahrhundert Nebst dessen
Release Date: April 25, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1855 edition by R. Weigel, Leipzig. ...
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|  | Letters to Penthouse XVII: Sinfully Sexy
Publication Date: December 1, 2002| Series: Letters to Penthouse (Book 17) From the bestselling 'Letters to Penthouse' series comes another spicy collection of letters written to one of the most popular men's magazines. ...
|  | The Z Word: Apocalypse Babes
Publication Date: June 5, 2011The Z Word follows Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani. The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by zombies wearing dated disco duds. ...
|  | Track of the Cat (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
Release Date: June 3, 2003| Series: An Anna Pigeon Novel Anna Pigeon takes a job as a park ranger looking for peace in the wilderness-but finds murder instead....
|  | Wild Wild Death (A Pepper Martin Mystery)
Release Date: January 3, 2012| Series: A Pepper Martin Mystery (Book 5) Her job has been cut, she's low on cash, and her detective sometime- boyfriend refuses to even talk about her ability to see the dead andsolve their murders. So Pepper is most certainly down for a vacation toget her spirits up. But when her cute scientist friend Dan iskidnapped, Pepper soon stumbles upon another deadly mystery that bringsher to New Mexico. And she's after a clever murderer-one whose idea ofBoot Hill has nothing to do with Jimmy Choo. ...
|  | Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3)
Publication Date: July 30, 2005Grave Peril Audio Book 10 CD's - UnabridgedWritten By Jim Butcher Read By James Marsters (Spike from BuffyThe Vampire Slayer & Angel)HARRY DRESDEN WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other EntertainmentHarry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden has had a rough couple of weeks. As the only openly practicing professional wizard in the Chicago area, he has squared off against a multitude of supernatural bad guys. Harry has won the day against demons, poltergeists, sorcerers, ...
|  | How Football Works (How Sports Work)
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